I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.